Charles Turzak - The Kiss - Modernist Woodcut signed

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Charles Turzak (1899-1986), The Kiss, woodcut, 1932, signed, titled and numbered (81/100), from the edition of 100. Reference: Turzak 12. With full margins, 9 x 4 1/2, the sheet 10 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches. In very good condition, printed in black ink on a cream colored Japan (laid) paper, archival mounting (unattached mylar hinging between acid free boards, glassine cover). A fine bright impression, possibly never framed with no discernible light or time staining. Turzak was a painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer. While a high school senior he won a national cartoon contest sponsored by Purina Mills. With the (relative) notoriety and riches he achieved through the contest he was able to get into (and pay tuition at) the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920. After graduating in 1924 Turzak stayed in Chicago as a free-lance and commercial artist. He gained a measure of serious fame during the Depression, participating in various federal arts programs; his modernist work, including both relatively abstract compositions such as The Kiss, and also his Chicago scenes created during those years are particularly valued today. After the Depression he made more commercial art, then in his later years worked again as a painter and printmaker, returning again to abstract composition. His art is represented in the collections of the Library of read more
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